Sir
Robert Gresley, Eleventh Baronet
Philip Alexius de Laszlo
-- British painter (1869-1937)
1924
Private Collection
Oil on Canvas
96.5 x 71 cm (38 x 28 in.)
Signed and dated de László
/ 1924; inscribed u.l. SIR ROBERT GRESLEY / ELEVENTH BARONET
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Sothebys
From: Sotheby’s
Sir Robert Gresley (1866-1936) came
into possession of the family seat of Drakelow Hall, Burton-on-Trent at
the age of two. He married Lady Frances Spencer-Churchill, daughter of
the 8th Duke of Marlborough in 1893. The last Gresley of Drakelow, Sir
Robert was forced through financial pressures to move out of his ancestral
home in 1931 and the magnificent contents were sold in a seven-day, 2000-lot
sale in 1933. When Drakelow was sold a link of 28 generations was broken
- a record of continuity scarcely matched by any other family in the country.
(Sothebys)
Lady
Frances Gresley
1924
Notes
Provenance:
Commissioned by the sitter and thence
by family descent to the present owner;
Exhibited:
The French Gallery, London, 120th
Exhibition: A Series of Portraits and Studies by Philip A. de László,
M.V.O., June 1924, no. 27 (‘Sir Robert Gresley, 11th Baronet’)
Sale:
Sold by Sotheby’s London, Modern
British Art, 2 June 2004, lot 41, Sale L04140, with an estimate of £6,000-8000.
Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 16,800 GBP
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